| Show t be a matter mailer of It great difficulty 5 10 I am J at t a Just In enso tt II J i l It may mav bo M Wish has been and nd If It it Wore vor possible to tow tite i ote w r such It 11 be In n favor ot of tl th the transfer Tit Thu there may ny mn have been heen t 1 feeling Celine II some Mme e tIme tigi among K ft a 1 few tew 0 Ib I 1 Is in but this was Willi lUll lwi 11 cIng s to and partly Mk maile mude b by the e anti S lIt ary about th the condl condi Porto meo Iq Ico und under r American rule lT t ik tm tha the v truth has CUlM cuino to light lIht tip fl 1 Island and overy every mall ball farther r reports of Its lis Progress uc ns as In our people ore are areT T looking forward to tho change bellev believing I lug ing that there can be nothing save sae prosperity for tor theta these Islands should It take place PlaceIt It U Is a II pity that this state of ot feeling reeling of ot the Inhabitants has hall not Itoh been blen more widely circulated throughout tho the United NO ao that Americans might know that lint they ore aro not lInt taking lal ln under their protection an nil unwilling fact tat which can be he substantiated by any American who has hn visited these Islands There has been beell a n little excitement hero here the tho last few days daya owing to n a ru rumor rumor mor inor that the tho sale was waa off olt ut at St Croix aa as a n special telegram sent the tho finance minister and by b leading Inhabitants among whom ere forty planters out of at acres of at cultivated land of ot the Island praying for tor or the Iho lie sate sale an nn opposition eltion list was WIS started Tho The few tew prop property property erty crt holders holder that wore overlooked re refused refused refused fused to sign slen It but the tile and a n afew afew few tel policemen dill did so nut the opinion to be Je gaining ground that all nil tho the n II has hus been lioen fostered ro lerea by Danish Speculators In the hope that should hould negotiations be oe declared d off art and values become further depreciated they may maybe maybe be able to purchase lands hinds and house ibOUS for a n song cong The Tho Bt It Croix Avis In III a n lotter letter tram from the rector roctor of ot tho the Angell nn church exposes the manner In III which signatures aI were obtained to a list In the other town This Ibis list was vent rent by hy cubic to the tile prime minister at Copenhagen on nn the th IlIst It pro protests protests tests against t file Die telegram sent by the tho forty planters anti and proprietors al nl already ready rond alluded to 10 characterizing them themas themus as us American capitalists and asks n ks his ills excellency to use his Influence to keep I St Croix under the Danish flag on condition that the tIle mother country will know how to find means to make the tho cultivation of at sugar which at finds Linde Itself in a 0 most critical position remunerative to this Island ThiS Thill Is I signed by three Danish Vanish plant planters ers era two to anti and by other but persons all 1111 eminently respectable not employers of ot nearly of ot orthe the Islands laborers who will shortly be without employment unless some somo takes place for even the tho Pro 1110 against the sale Bale admit the critical position of the sugar Industry The general eMral feeling reeling Is that of at despair for tor tha iii future of at these Islands If It the sale cab l Is h not completed nn give all eli tho the help In this tills examination which she he legitimately could The report re reo report port say says a the th testimony shows that ad Lul ad cance clince Information of a n more or less definite character was waa given out by Jy he h liar r cowering covering at least lenat six questions asked ask d dIn In the tho examination and und also that un on unclassified classified labors In the statistical dl ill vision 1 lolI were vere given en other unfair togas the tile questions being raIned framed In a n manner that only those experienced In the HIP actual work of at the divis division vis ion 1011 could coull pass The Tho report calls attention to an nn ap apparent apparent apparent parent effort by Hyde to 10 forestall the tho Investigation ot of the com coin commission mission III and says threats were made to them th III Given 1 I ye i Civil II a titi ii a I hI II Tips Ii Washington jill civil ear sor vice vleo commission lies hut the bite ox IX for tor special statistical earn cam of nf the department of or held leM Juno JUliO IS 18 antI and 19 1 last Int and has mado lIao public ltd Its report leport l port on Itu ot of tile the Integrity of or that examination The rho report says that of ot thu division nf ot statistIcs were wern and unfairly as n od In their lion for rOI the tue examination by II disclosure mado In ado by Mrs tr Bertha hunch an nil em om in Ii pu U suano 0 o Instruction front fron John H J dc de of ot tho depart I lent ot of agriculture directing hot her to tu I |
